Chinese New Year 2014 :)

It's Chinese New Year again! And it's always this period of time, where people force themselves to not fight, or quarrel, or disagree with each other, because they claim for it to be bad luck, or an omen of whatever evil that will perhaps happen to you in the year ahead. I don't know but I find these beliefs rather amusing... But nonetheless, I respect them, and honestly, I kinda follow them too, since everyone around me is doing whatever is considered "in-the-spirit-of-correctness"...

School celebration today was pretty good, relaxed and festive and harmonious. But of course, the best part wasn't all the festive atmosphere or the colours or the performances (which were spectacular by the way :))

It was meeting you. More specifically, getting a warm hug from you. <3 Many people know that I love you a lot, like A LOT. But I don't think many of them know exactly what it means to me to get something from you, especially when that something is a hug. I remember last year, all I had wanted, except from getting into the HP class, was that you would hug me. And it never happened, until the last day of school, where you gave me 3 hugs. And lemme let you, that was literally the best day of the year for me, or rather, the best day of my lower secondary school life. :p (For those who read this, like Kaixing for eg, you are probably rolling your eyes now :P, and many will probably say that it is so exaggerated, but it's not, or at least I don't think it is...) Although two of the hugs came from pressure from my friends (thanks guys :D) But the last one was so meaningful, and so precious that I didn't even have the heart to write it down even in this very personal blog... THAT is just a headstart of how much you mean to me....

So today, I was supposed to give you the history assignments, and when I did, you were outside the General Office, talking to Mr Mac and Mr Benson, and I was standing behind, and you turned around.

"Hi Ms Chua, the history assignments are here." (then I talked about Nat and KX's issue which I shall not talk about here)

"Hello my darling! Thank you so much! Happy Chinese New Year!" 

So then I gave you my gift for you, and you asked,
"How come no oranges for me?"

And I replied what I sincerely thought,
"Oranges are so common and usual, so I thought I should give you something different..." 

And then you laughed and asked
"So does it mean that I'm special to you?"

And of course, I said
"Yeah of course!" (and you will probably never know exactly how special you are to me)

And then you gave me a hug. And that just made my day. :) At that point of time, I knew that many teachers were staring at us, especially Mr Mac and Mr Benson (and Ms Tan I think :o), but I really didn't care... And then I heard Mr Mac laughing, and that was all that I can remember, but given that I was literally flying high after that hug, I think it's already pretty amazing that I actually can remember some things and our conversation.

Then we went to do our annual Chinese Calligraphy, and honestly, I'm pretty proud of my masterpiece... :p Then we went for the concert, and I must say, I spotted many of my friends on stage, but I think I was most proud that Yuci was part of the dance. She's worked so hard to even get into this CCA and for a whole year she was behind the scenes, looking enviously at her batchmates shining on stage, and probably fantasising about when her time will come. It came. And it was so beautiful, thinking about where she started, crying about not getting enough recognition in dance lessons, to seeing where she is right now, smiling (creepily) with her batchmates, dancing right in front, shining just as brightly as the others.

And then I went back to NHPS with Lorraine, and that was pretty fun, getting to catch up with my classmates, feeling so old, while reminiscing the good times together. Nostalgic, but amazing how we change so much yet still stay the same in some way. Good to see them. Really good.

And then last of all, reunion dinner was awesome, with like 10 dishes and lots of fun. Geez I seriously need to go running every single day after the holidays or I'll turn into an inflated hot air balloon in no time...

So actually, today was pretty great. :) Pretty pretty great...